Linda

I have teaching experience on 3 continents and 4 countries.

My passion is assisting youngsters to become the best they can be for when they become young adults on leaving school.
I do this best by listening and watching how each learns to encourage confidence that their individual method will work well for them to apply across all considerations. It is their THINKING through a scenario which will reward them with a conclusion.

Availability: all evenings NZ time 4pm onwards
weekends all day
school holidays

Willing to travel: 8 miles

Experience: Primary & secondary trained both in UK and NZ
currently registered NZ until 18/12/18.
Series of posts of responsibility throughout my 4 decade career.
Any Primary/Intermediate level.
Secondary Maths up to L3 and science up to L1
Literacy and numeracy skills for practical tertiary qualifications.

Curriculum Vitae, Linda

Qualifications:
Teaching Diploma (Distinction), Primary/Secondary, Maths, Physics, University of Liverpool, UK
BEd (Hons) Maths and Education, University of Lancaster, UK
Post Graduate Business Management (Hons), Massey University, NZ
2018 Feb – Dec Level 2 Te Ara Reo, Māori Te Wānanga o Aotearoa, Gisborne, Auckland University, NZ


Teaching Experience:
1971-1977, various positions Maths/Science teacher, HOD Maths, Head of House, Leader Chorley Maths teachers, Liaison/Transition teacher with contributory primary schools, St Michael’s CE High School, Chorley, UK
1977-1980 Head of Faculty of Maths, Science and Technology, St Michael’s CE High School, Chorley, UK, Liaison with local industries, Pilkington Glass, British Leyland, British Aerospace
!980/81 Substitute (Relief) teaching Wyoming and California, USA
1981-1984 Math teacher, Grades 10-12, established and responsibility for Basic Math programs, Victor Valley High School, California
1985 Travel. US,Hawaii, Fiji, NZ, Australia, NZ. My OE –working holiday.
1986-1992 Maths and Science, Teacher responsible for devising alternative senior Maths courses, Form 6 & 7. Maths Assistance programme throughout Central Southland College, notably Year 9, Winton. CSC tramping club, Outdoor Education training
1989-1991 Mentor teaching, Southland District High Schools
1992-1994 Maths/Science teaching UK (family reasons)
1995 NZ. Young family
2000 Retrained NZ Secondary, Auckland University, formerly ECE
2000 Long term relieving Maths, Long Bay College, Auckland
2001 Westlake Boys High School, Learner Support Maths, Relief teaching;; raising family.
2001/2 IGCSE/A Level Maths, Costa Blanca International College, Alicante, Spain solo Maths teacher Years 7-13.
2002-2015 Mathematics/numeracy with some literacy, part time Learner Support, Westlake Boys High School, Auckland whilst raising family
2014 .5 Maths teaching for sick colleague, Westlake Boys High, concurrent LS
2015 .5 Maths,Te Kura, Auckland, Feb –May, concurrent LS Westlake Boys HS
2015 .5 May-Nov, Maths teacher LTR Albany Senior High School, concurrent LS WBHS
2016 Kaipara College, .6 maths teacher, plus Relief Teaching
2014 – 2017 Maths tutor, Kip McGrath, Browns Bay, Auckland
2017 Long term Relief teaching Long Bay College term 1
2017 April – Dec Maths and science teaching, Fixed Term, Lytton High School, Gisborne
2018 Feb - Relief Teaching Gisborne Boys High School
2018 March- June –casual seasonal packing work. NZ Fruits
2018 June – ongoing –support for EIT and local High School students HUB EIT Gisborne
2018 July – Student Facilitator EIT part time, Gisborne
2018 August – Oct - LTR Maths Albany Junior High School
2018 Nov – Relief, Birkdale Intermediate, North Shore, Auckland



Summary
My four decades of a variety of teaching on three continents and four countries has given me valuable understanding of how students best learn when their individual differences and methods of learning are considered. My varied travels/sojourns/experiences and challenges have enabled me to become more tolerant of people and gained valuable insight as how best to motivate non- homogeneous students of all cultures and abilities.

My philosophy is that all youngsters have the capacity to learn;; that they come with varying experiences from which we can all learn together. As an adult, I merely have had the opportunity for a wider variety of experiences, yet often very different from my students. My aim is for each of them to believe they have the capacity to learn, that we can all learn together and that they are all gifted. As their teacher, it is my responsibility to find the optimum way to assist each student to maximise this, to help find their passion. My premise has always been “head and heart together”. Listen, then evaluate, via thinking, through any issue.

Thus, my aim is to inculcate the need for students to utilise their thought processes enabling them to think what they need to learn to move forward and then apply what they have learned via a thorough holistic understanding to enable them know themselves. For those youngsters in my care it is important that they believe in themselves by listening to themselves, to evaluate how they learn in order to enable them to think and adapt to any given situation. It is my role as a facilitator, to assist students to evaluate this. I wish for them to have the ability to utilise their thought processes in their unique learning style, understanding that their peers will resolve an identical problem differently. Pooling both methodology and knowledge is also what I advocate for this to reach full individual fruition. Collaboration with co-operation must result in a better product for all?


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